A basketball tryout in Germany is the next step for an Australian guard who has spent three seasons moving up the Spanish league system, and the coach waiting for him there coached at our European Summer League. Chris Whitson arrives this week for a tryout with a 1. Regionalliga club for the 2026-27 season.
What a Coach Is Getting
Chris is a 6’3″ combo guard who can play on or off the ball. He shoots it from three, gets to the line, and finishes inside the arc at a rate you don’t often see from a guard.
His best season came in 2024-25 with CB Loriguilla in Spain’s Primera Nacional. Over 30 games he averaged 14.7 points, 5.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.3 steals in 27.1 minutes. He shot 57% on twos, 34% from three and 83% from the line.
In 2025-26 he moved up to Tercera FEB with CB Vall d’Uixó. His role was smaller at 20.6 minutes a night, and his scoring came down to 9.1 points. The efficiency held: 56% on twos, 33% from three and 78% at the line over 21 games.
Three Programs in Valencia
Chris first came to EuroProBasket in the spring of 2022, after a U21 season with SC Phoenix in Australia. He trained in Valencia from late April and played the European Summer League in June. He showed he could shoot it, and he went home with a better understanding of what European teams would expect from him.
He came back a better player. He returned for three weeks of the Euro Professional Program in October and November 2022, then a third time in 2023.
That spring he played the Trofeo Federación for CB Algemesí, averaging 23.1 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists over 9 games while shooting 57% on twos and 37% from three. In June he played his second European Summer League, and both tournaments went on his highlight film. About a month after that summer league, he earned a roster spot with CB Mollerussa in Catalunya for the 2023-24 season through our contacts with the club.
Three Seasons, Three Levels in Spain
Catalunya was an adjustment. With CB Mollerussa in Primera Catalana he averaged 10.5 points in 21 minutes and shot 36% from three, but only 38% inside the arc.
He fixed it. A year later at CB Loriguilla his two-point percentage jumped to 57%, and his minutes and scoring went up with it. Then came Tercera FEB with CB Vall d’Uixó.
Three seasons, three levels, each one a step up from the last, and every move came through our connections with Spanish clubs. A guard who moves up every year in Spain has shown he can earn minutes against players who grew up in that system.
What Earned Chris Whitson a Basketball Tryout in Germany
Chris Whitson is a 25-year-old Australian guard who earned a tryout with a 1. Regionalliga club in Germany for the 2026-27 season through EuroProBasket’s connections. He attended three EuroProBasket programs in Valencia in 2022 and 2023, then played three seasons in Spain with CB Mollerussa (Primera Catalana), CB Loriguilla (Primera Nacional) and CB Vall d’Uixó (Tercera FEB), all through EuroProBasket connections.
The coach of his new team in Germany is a former EuroProBasket European Summer League coach. He has worked inside our program, so he knows how our players are coached and how they compete. When we presented Chris, the coach already knew where he was coming from.
Deep contacts create opportunities for EuroProBasket players. Chris backed this one up with game film, stats and exposure: three seasons of Spanish numbers and full games on film.
His career in Europe has been built the same way from the start: three programs in Valencia, his own work ethic, and our commitment to keep helping a player who keeps coming back.
A tryout is an earned opportunity. What happens in Germany is up to Chris.
The Euro Professional Program
Chris came back three times, and each time he left Valencia a better player.
If you want to start where Chris started, I would look at the Euro Professional Program in Valencia. Then look at the players signed and committed since 2015.
